Source: wxwidgets2.8 Version: 2.8.12.1+dfsg2-2 Severity: serious Justification: In the package maintainer's opinion this package is unsuitable for release
We should not release jessie with wxwidgets2.8. We have packages of wxwidgets3.0 and wxpython3.0 which are newer upstream releases of the software in wxwidgets2.8, and most of the reverse dependencies have already been migrated - by the release freeze for jessie, we should be down to a very small number of reverse dependencies unmigrated, most of which we have agreement to remove. The wxWidgets library is a large and complex piece of software, and 2.8.x is unmaintained upstream. Even before 3.0 was released, 2.8 was neglected - the last release was 2.8.12 on 2011-03-28. By the time jessie releases, this release will be close to 4 years old. By the EOL of jessie (assuming no LTS), it'll be almost 7 years old. The wx maintainer team in Debian is not a strong one - I've been the only active member in recent times, though Gianfranco Costamagna has started to get involved more recently. Neither of us are interested in continuing to maintain wxwidgets2.8. Meanwhile, upstream are currently working towards a new stable release series, with 3.2.0 slated to be released "in the beginning of 2015" - source: http://trac.wxwidgets.org/wiki/Roadmap Historically, upstream's prediction of release dates have tended to be rather optimistic, but even if they're off by a whole year, we'll still have a new upstream release series in the lifetime of jessie, which means some applications will be wanting wxwidgets3.2 packaged in jessie+1 because they rely on new features added in it. And we really don't want to be trying to maintain packages of three different upstream releases of wx concurrently. Cheers, Olly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
